Identifier syntax change from 1.3.43 to 1.3.147

[Han-Wen Nienhuys]

address@hidden writes:
> Why must identifiers now be alphabetic characters only? 
> I find this a huge restriction as I commonly use the syntax below and
> have a fair body of work that uses numbers and underscores for clarity
> and readability and meaning.

Sorry, the underscores and the numbers necessitate crude hacks to get
identifier references working. You can use letters (A, B, C .. ) to
replace numbers and mixed caps to replace underscores.

I hope that we can piggy-back on the Scheme environment in the future
for more general naming schemes. For now, perhaps we can change it
into a warning.

> Regards,
> Roy Rankin
> 
> BTW should the "}" be in the error message?

thanks for the report, i'll look into it.

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